Tells the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak to the place and role of the foreigner in English society--Francis Barber, Randolph Turpin and David Oluwale.
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"In 1960s London, Victor Johnson, a young immigrant from the Caribbean, arrives in Britain and finds work collecting rent for Peter Feldman, and soon falls in love with Peter's secretary Ruth. Over the course of nearly half a century, we discover the truth of both Peter's tragic ...
Her dream had always been to one day return home to Dominica. In 1936, a forty-five-year-old Jean Rhys was finally able to make the journey back to the Caribbean. Six weeks later, she boarded a ship for England, filled with hostility for her home, never to return.
The story of Ganesh, a young, aspiring author whose unexpected talents as a healer bring him local fame and enable him to realize his ambitions as a writer. But he also realizes his limitations when his reputation as the legendary "mystic masseur" propels him to national renown a...
The sweeping story of the life of author Jean Rhys, this novel uncovers the mysteries of the past to illuminate the predicaments of the present, getting at the heart of alienation, exile, and family by offering a look into the life of one of the greatest storytellers of the twent...
Award-winning author Caryl Phillips presents a biographical novel of the life of Jean Rhys, the author of Wide Sargasso Sea , which she wrote as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre . Caryl Phillips's A View of the Empire at Sunset is the sweeping story of the life o...
Award-winning author Caryl Phillips presents a biographical novel of the life of Jean Rhys, the author of Wide Sargasso Sea , which was written as a prequel to Jane Eyre . Caryl Phillips's A View of the Empire at Sunset is the sweeping story of the life of the woman who beca...
German Jewish girl whose life and death are shaped by the atrocities of World War II...her uncle, who undermines the sureties of his own life in order to fight for Israeli statehood...the Jews of the sixteenth-century Venetian ghetto, trapped both literally and figuratively by ra...
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 One of Poets and Writers ' Best Books for Writers "[A] boundlessly inventive look at narrative form . . . filled with clarity and wit, underlain with formidable erudition." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "How lovely to discov...